Art City contributors are not the types to be sitting by the phone on a Saturday night. No, indeed. In fact, we're picking up the phone to help you make your weekend plans. As you know, we are a multi-platform gang and never to be outdone in any media. So, starting this week, the contributors are calling the good, old-fashioned Art City phone line with their best suggestions for art to see on the weekend.

Feeling isolated and burned out by the logistical challenges of touring, he moved back to Milwaukee in February 2013. But Newski's life isn't any less adventurous. The 27-year-old has played in 16 countries and on every continent but Antarctica. He's in the midst of one of his most aggressive touring years yet, wrapping up a European jaunt across Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Ireland and the U.K., his goal of 200 shows for 2014 inching ever closer to certainty. | May 14, 2014»Read Full Article

Spring brings two new books from the hand of novelist and playwright Janet Burroway:"Losing Tim: A Memoir," her search for some understanding of her son's suicide, and "A Story Larger Than My Own: Women Writers Look Back on Their Lives and Careers," a thought-provoking anthology of essays from women born in the 1930s, '40s and early '50s.

Though disparate topics, the books have in common the idea that looking at the past helps us understand the present, and both benefit from Burroway's abiding curiosity, her sense of decency and literary sensibilities. | May 14, 2014»Read Full Article

To celebrate these milestones, the Ten Chimneys Foundation is throwing a little fete at 9 a.m. and offering champagne and coffee to visitors. Tours of the estate that day will cost $26, of course, a discount from the usual fee of $35. | May 14, 2014»Read Full Article

He was the little boy who possessed thermometers, wind speed indicators and gauges of all kinds. His father put a big map of the United States behind plexiglass so that young Paul Zandt could stand in front of it, draw on it indicating what the weather would do, then erase it and start all over again.

The fascination with weather — the beauty, the mystery, the challenge of predicting — began when he was about 5 years old. | May 14, 2014»Read Full Article

Hello and welcome to the middle of your week. Here's a bit of what's going on today.

This should be an interesting one. Wye Oak is up tonight at Turner Hall. The band snagged some amazing reviews with its folkie, indie-rock sound a few years ago but decided to, well, give up some instruments with the new record. Critics are in a tizzy about it. Go hear the band for yourself. | May 14, 2014»Read Full Blog Post

OneRepublic, the pop-rock group fronted by go-to dramatic pop producer Ryan Tedder (Adele, Beyoncé), has been on the ascent since the band's debut single "Apologize" 10 years ago, with subsequent multiplatinum-selling singles such as "Stop and Stare," "All the Right Moves," "Secrets" and its latest major hit, "Counting Stars" from last year's "Native."| May 14, 2014»Read Full Article